Re: Deprecate/remove riscv64sf

In reply to: John Baldwin : "Deprecate/remove riscv64sf"
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From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:39:43 UTC

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 12:17 PM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Is anyone using riscv64sf?  All of the existing RISC-V boards include
> hard-float
> support as well as QEMU.  The FPGA cores we use at Cambridge also all
> support
> hard-float.  My understanding is that glibc doesn't bother supporting
> soft-float
> on RV64.  If no one is using it (and has no plans to use it), then I
> propose
> we drop it in 14.0 and save one more buildworld from make tinderbox.
>

I agree. Iirc it was added just in case since some 32bit cores had no fp.

Warner

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